Brazilians Demand End to Opression of Arab Women

Women’s and human rights groups demonstrated today outside the Ulysses Guimarães Convention Center during the opening of the South America – Arab Countries Summit, in BrasÀ­lia, to protest the way females are treated in the Arab countries.

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